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Xerox Xerox Xerox XEROX XEROX EARS Filename: (ALTODOCS)GYPSY.EARS;3 Creation Date: MONDAY, 4 AUG 1975 12:26-PDT XEROX XEROX GYPSY: THE GINN TYPESCRIPT SYSTEM Attached is a description of the user facilities of the Ginn typescript system. An almost identical system is available at PARC for playing only. People are invited to try the system and get a feel for its use. Our version is slightly obsolescent, somewhat buggy (though not dangerous to your disk), and will not be maintained in any way. It lacks many facilities one would need for the general-purpose editing done at PARCo We recommend Bravo for doing useful editing work in this building. The system is available as <ALTO>GYPSY.DM. You must have 550 disk pages and the "new" operating system before retrieving and unloading it. The following features differ from their document descriptions: * It runs on one disk. * Substitute operates on a source, not a target. * LOOK is a pseudonym for the CTRL key. * LOOK-L and R are unavailable for margin changing. Remark font is obtained by LOOK-R instead of by LOOK­ X; remarks are always visible. LOOK-J justifies poorly. All LOOKs operate on a source instead of a target (except during typein). * Page turning using LOOK is unavailable. Printing is unavailable. * The scale at the top edge of the screen extends from the far left to 2/3 of the way across. * BW (backspace word) is the blank key alongside BS. * CUT can be done with ESC; PASTE with SHIFT-ESC. * Fast scrolling is available: hold the middle key down along with either scroll key. * Page 1 of the directory permits arbitrary files to be fetched, but they can not be formatted or paragraphed, nor may paragraphs from formatted files be pasted into them. For such documents, the left edge becomes a line select area. * To see how font changes are run-length encoded, do a LOOK-H. We have no interest in hearing about bugs at this time. If you end up in Swat or in an endless loop, Boot. If you have useful work to do, use Bravo. XEROX GYPSY: THE GINN TYPESCRIPT SYSTEM April 20, 1975 Larry Tesler Palo Alto Research Center Timothy Mott Ginn and Company Gypsy is the "typescript" component of the Ginn Publishing System being developed at PARCo It is oriented towards the preparation of the content of a book with little concern for its format. A second component of the system will be called a "pagescript" system and will deal with the makeup of pages for photocomposition. The typescript system was delivered to Ginn in March, 1975 and trial production use began in April. The hardware and software are not yet adequately reliable, so most of the current effort in development concentrates on reliability improvements. The system is used both by highly trained operators and by minimally trained editors. The training period is four hours to two days, depending on the experience and the goals of the trainee. The primary responsibility of the operator is to key in an author's manuscript as accurately as pOSSible, using boldface, italics, and underlining where appropriate, and noting other formatting instructions in asides typed in a special "remark font". When version one of the typescript is completed and stored, the system produces hard copy for editorial scrutiny. At this point the editor may work on line to make revisions or may mark up the printout and ask an operator to make the revisions. In either case, the editing facilities of the system are used to alter the stored text producing version two. This process may be repeated several times before a final version of the typescript is obtained. Printouts have in the left margin a bar (change marker) next to each paragraph which contains a change from the preceding version. The last version of the typescript becomes the first version of the pagescript when it is time to make up the pages for the book. In the page layout stage, graphics editors will operate the pagescript system. The software is programmed in BCPL for the Alto computer. The standard lID devices include an ascii keyboard, a three-button mouse, a five-key keyset, an BOO-sean-line bit map display, and one or two removable disks. The disk in drive a is mounted at all times and stores software, fonts, and so forth. The disk in drive 1 stores several versions of several chapters of a single book in progress, so it is frequently removed. The remainder of this memo deals only with the typescript system. Tesler and Matt The Gypsy Typescript System The Display The display is divided into vertically stacked "windows". Most of the time there are three windows, as follows: I command window ICancel File Scan for {} document window waste basket The command window has two lines. The first is usually blank but occasionally displays a feedback message. The second line contains a menu of commands which can be invoked by pointing at the italicized command word and pressing a mouse button. The document window displays almost a full page worth of text. The text can be scrolled behind the window to bring hidden portions into view. The waste basket has two lines but can be expanded at the expense of the document window. Whenever material is cut (deleted) it is put in the waste basket so that the operator can see what has been cut and have access to it for reinsertion. When the mouse is rolled on the table, a distinctive symbol follows its motions on the display. Currently this mouse symbol looks like a large capital I with wide horizontals. The Directory When Gypsy is started up, the document window displays the contents page of a directory listing all documents that are available on the disk in drive 1. The contents page has entries such as: Turn to Page 2 The World of Gonzo Journalism, Chapter 14, HST, 2/5/75 This entry announces that chapter 1 4 of the named book is on this disk, and that its versions are listed on page 2 of the directory. To turn to page 2, the operator invokes the Turn command by pointing at the word Turn and pressing a 2 Tesler and Matt The Gypsy Typescript System mouse button. When this is doneJ text like the following appears in the document window: The World of Gonzo Journalism, Chapter 14, HST, 2/5/75 Fetch Version 1 Authors original manuscript, 2/6/75, MJE Fetch Version 2 First set of editorial revisions, 2/7/75, DMN Fetch Version 3 First set of authors revisions, 2/14/75, DMN Fetch Version 4 Second set of editorial revisions, 2/21/75, MJE Fetch the Working Draft Make the Working Draft into Version 5 This list announces the presence of four editorial versions and an operator's working draft of version 5. Invoking a Fetch command brings the corresponding version or draft into the document window. Versions may be scrolled and scannedJ but they may not be edited. The working draft may be edited and then filed as a revised working draft. After all changes have been made to a workingdraftJ it is turned into a version by typing a description under the Make line and then invoking the Make command. This command automatically edits the directory to reflect the new status of the document as follows: The World of Gonzo Journalism, Chapter 14, HST, 2/5/75 Fetch Version 1 Authors original manuscript, 2/6/75, MJE Fetch Version 2 First set of editorial revisions, 2/7/75, DMN Fetch Version 3 First set of authors revisions, 2/14/75, DMN Fetch Version 4 Second set of editorial revisions, 2/21/75, MJE Fetch Version 5 Typographical corrections, 2/23/75, MJE Create a new Working Draft If more versions are needed laterJ the operator will invoke the Create command to create a new working draft and continue as before. To add a totally new document to the diskJ the last entry in the contents page is invol<ed. It says (for example): Add new Page 7 3 Tesler and Matt The Gypsy Typescript System The operator must first type a descriptor for the document below the Add line before invoking Add. This command automatically edits the contents page to reflect the addition, and creates a new page at the end of the directory with the correct title and a Create command ready to be invoked. The initial working draft will normally be empty, but there are ways to make a working draft from a copy of another document, or from a text file on a cassette tape produced by an off-line word processor. Editing After a working draft is fetched, the operator may wish to edit it. First it is necessary to specify the location where a change is to be made. If the top mouse button is pressed and released while the mouse symbol is pointing to text, a caret symbol appears between adjacent characters. The caret specifies a target for text insertion. It can also be positioned at either end of a word or line of text or at the left end of a blank line. Only one target exists at anyone time. When a new selection is begun, the old target is deselected. If the operator types on the keyboard, text is inserted at the target. Any text to the right of the caret is moved over to accommodate the additional material. If the line overflows, the paragraph is realigned immediately so that each line contains as many words as can possibly fit.
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